Valencia firefighters told a judge they prepared for the damage “as if the entire state were on red alert.”

This is stated in a letter signed by the Chief Inspector of the Fire Department, addressed to the Magistrate in response to a letter dated October 28, 2024, requesting information the Fire Department has in anticipation of possible flooding by the Dana River on the 29th, and also specifying how that information was obtained and whether this motivated the adoption of measures to strengthen supplies and personnel.

This Friday, the instructor agreed to new testimony in the criminal case. He subpoenaed two members of the emergency communications team and the press director of the Valencian regional parliament to testify in response to a request by Ciudadanos and Compromis for a public complaint.

According to the fire brigade report, Reinforcement is established based on the expected level of risk For each of the state’s four weather forecast zones established by the State Meteorological Office (Aemet), for the expected duration of the episode in each particular case.

Regarding the required dates, at 11:40 a.m. on October 28, the Emergency Coordination Center issued a warning for orange-level rain for the entire interior region (northern interior and southern interior weather forecast areas of the Valencian region).

The document goes on to say that an orange level rain warning exists across the inland and reinforcements must remain in place while relays are carried out every 12 hours. Then, at 06:50 on 29 October, the state of emergency issued a notice conveying an orange level rain warning for the north-south inland and south coast weather regions.

The changes “related to serving the parks of Trento, Argila and Gandia,” the fire chief explained. There are two more firefighters in each.». Then, at 7:45 a.m., there was a new notice with a red warning for rain in the south coast weather area and an orange warning for the rest of the state.

“Although this heightened alert did not affect the entire province of Valencia at the time, it was decided, with the prior permission of the Fire Department Chief Inspector, to fully strengthen the alert as if the entire province were in a state of emergency,” the report said.

Finally, at 10 a.m., the Department of Emergency Services reportedly issued an orange-level rain warning for the southern interior region and a red-level rain warning for the rest of the state. In this case, the reinforcement measures are Already adopted in advance He concluded in a notification received at 07:45.